His national security team had been trying to box him in like every other president. But he called their bluff.
The mainstream media has attacked President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria as impulsive, blindsiding his own national security team. But detailed, published accounts of the policy process over the course of the year tell a very different story. They show that senior national security officials and self-interested institutions have been playing a complicated political game for months aimed at keeping Trump from wavering on our indefinite presence on the ground in Syria.
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The outcome is Boolean: Trump will either be right or wrong. It will be interesting to watch.
ReplyDeleteYes and I'll put my money on Teflon Don. :)
DeleteThe globalist military mantra has been, "we gotta fight them there, so we don't haveta fight'em here". I ask, "and how do they get here?" After the usual none answer from those who support that policy, I help them, "don't let'em come" and especially, "don't bring them here"! --Ron W
ReplyDeletehow do they get here?
DeletePrecisely. Hitler was stopped by the English Channel at only 150 miles.